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Another Blue Jay Photo. I think Blue Jays are beautiful and I’ve found a park they seem to like. But it is still challenging to get close enough to one for a photograph. And even harder to get a clear shot through the branches. And rare that the light is favorable. But sometimes it happens.

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So it is, Grumpy. Apologies to “grumpies” everywhere - senior moments are getting more frequent. I’ll try to remember that only one of my local tit species is still a Parus and that black-headed gull is no longer a Larus...

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Another Blue Jay Photo. I think Blue Jays are beautiful and I’ve found a park they seem to like. But it is still challenging to get close enough to one for a photograph. And even harder to get a clear shot through the branches. And rare that the light is favorable. But sometimes it happens.

I like them myself, and I have many slightly blurred images of Blue Jays. They tend to be skittish and jump around a lot. Often when I approach the window with a camera, they flee. I once had a flock of them descend on our yard around the feeders. They were so busy eating and chattering, they ignored me at the window, and I got several pics with as many as eight of them eating under the tree.

A shot from 32 years ago to illustrate my grump. I have hundreds of shots of nesting cycle of a pair of Eurasian Blue Tit (Cyanistes caeruleus). Except when the photos were taken and captioned they were a Blue Tit (Parus caeruleus).